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Sofia Bergh, PhD student

In June 2022, Sofia Bergh started her PhD studies in TNU supervised by Prof. Åsa Petersén. The overall aim of the PhD project is to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of limbic system pathology of Huntington’s disease. Her first original research article is in press titled “Effects of mutant huntingtin in oxytocin neurons on non-motor features of Huntington’s disease” in Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. One of her current projects is aimed to determine the role of SIDT-2 in the limbic system in development and treatment HD and ALS/FTD.

Education

2022 - current: PhD studies in Neuroscience, Lund university, Lund, Sweden. 
Title: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of limbic system pathology in Huntington disease.
Thesis Supervisor: Åsa Petersén MD PhD, Lund University.  

2020-2022 Master of Science in Molecular biology specializing in medical biology, Lund university, Lund, Sweden.
Thesis: Effects of mutant huntingtin on non-motor features of Huntington's disease.
Supervisor::Åsa Petersén MD PhD and Sanaz Gabery MD PhD. 

2015-2018: Bachelor of Science in Molecular biology, Lund university, Lund, Sweden.
Thesis: Polymorphism and Expression of CD36 and IRAK3 in Bank Voles.
Supervisor: Lars Råberg PhD. 

Employment

2021: Research assistant in Stanley Heinze’s research group at Functional zoology, Department of biology, Lund university, Lund, Sweden.

2021-2022 University affiliate in Stanley Heinze’s research group at Functional zoology, Department of biology, Lund university, Lund, Sweden. 

Publications

Bergh S, Gabery S, Tonetto S, Kirik D, Petersén Å and Cheong RY.
Effects of mutant huntingtin in oxytocin neurons on non-motor features of Huntington's disease.
Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 2023 Feb 12;e12891. doi: 10.1111/nan.12891. Online ahead of print.

Bergh S, Cheong RY, Petersén Å and Gabery S.
Oxytocin in Huntington's disease and the spectrum of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 15:984317 (2022)

Sofia Bergh

E-mail: Sofia [dot] Bergh [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

Lund University
Translational Neuroendocrinology Research Unit
BMC D11
Klinikgatan 32
221 84 Lund
Sweden